The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 79
Better fatten me up; you will enjoy me much more.’
Who acts: you · What happens: fatten up, enjoy · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 fatten | advmod |
| 2 | fatten | fatten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fatten | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 fatten | compound:prt |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 enjoy | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 enjoy | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 enjoy | aux |
| 8 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fatten | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 enjoy | obj |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 enjoy | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fatten | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 fatten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fatten up | imperative | you not said here | me | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | enjoy | future | you | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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